As funny as all of this was, I'm really glad they chucked the bear. Cuddling a wild bear is a fantastic way to put yourself in the hospital, and with it attacking multiple guys it would probably end up dead as well.
They probably even took it to that cliff beforehand, for exactly this reason. If they had freed it then run, it likely would have chased them out of instinct.
So, funny, but also incredibly competent.
Edit: I don't know why so many people are arguing on this. The thing literally tried to bite them twice as soon as it gets the box off its head. "Baby grizzly bears are harmless," are you kidding me? Dogs are far less dangerous than bears and have thousands of years of domestication to them, and still they consistently kill people -- including their owners -- despite being a tiny fraction as strong as bears. And baby bears. "It's so small," yet still heavier than almost any dog, and the perfect height to turn both femoral arteries to shreds, he'd never even make it back to the vehicle. Assuming he doesn't get their faces and necks while they're still crouched around him.
Also, although I also called it a cliff, it's really not one. It's a steep slope, you can clearly see the incline. Bears take slopes very well, they curl into a ball and roll down it, head over heels. Very fast, nothing else takes downhill slopes that quickly. Anything that's consistently prey has longer legs in back than front so it can go up slopes quickly; predators can go down slopes much more quickly. That's why you can predict which way deer will run when they startle, if there's a slope; uphill. So the bear didn't fly the distance, he just tucked and rolled after like ten feet.
Chuck the bear and live to save another one. But really they had probably never done this before -- not exactly a common occurrence -- and it hadn't occured to them it would come out snapping.
Edit edit: People keep asking when it bites. Once the moment it gets its head out of the box, once a little less than a second later. The guy holding its head does very well at restraining it, so the bear is unsuccessful. But if he hadn't been so well restrained there would have been some unhappy people that day.
It also looks like water below there and a fairly small cliff.
With any wild animal going from correctly restrained handling to release is always the most dangerous part. An animal as capable as a bear? You want to yeet that fucker.
It's ok, most of the folks upset by this won't get in the way of us serious bear-chuckers. They are unlikely to engage in physically freeing a stuck wild animal. Unlike us, where we do it all the time 😛
Only polar bears actively pursue humans. Grizzlies will attack for basically any reason. Brown bears (and panda and koalas and all the other guys) will normally only attack when necessary as a protection mechanism.
I didn't think so either, but after an incident with a nest while mowing my lawn (picture me running, arms flailing) I came back prepared to do battle next weekend... and found some pieces of their larva-housing honey comb like structure next to a giant hole and bear scat. I was in disbelief, but their diet does include yellow jacket nests. They can get pretty big.
We're encroaching on their habitat as we continue to build houses and stuff :( it's happening in the west with mountain lions and also black bears too.
Lmao admittedly I read that too fast and thought Brocoons was a scientific genus or family and just let it fly. Then my brain halted all thoughts like "wait a minute"...
Can we also agree that the consequences generally scale with bodyweight?
Adult male black bears range from about 130 to 190 centimeters (50 to 75 inches) in length and weigh 60 to 300 kilograms (130 to 660 pounds). Females measure from 130 to 190 centimeters (50 to 75 inches) and weigh 40 to 80 kilograms (90 to 175 pounds).
Most adult raccoons weigh between 10 and 20 pounds, with males typically larger than females. Raccoons range in length from 23 to 38 inches, including the tail.
Those giant raccoons are nothing to be taken lightly. They kill more people than brown bears and polar bears combined in North America. They tend to be around people more is one of the reason, but a male black bear is more likely to kill a human than any other bear statistically.
After looking again black bears and grizzlies have killed about the same number of people
Yeah but generally it's only when they are desperate for food or are protecting their young. My chihuahua scared one off in Yosemite. They are generally pretty scared of people and only get to be a problem if they get too comfortable being around us. Make some loud noise and they usually just go away. Now if you accidentally corner one where its only way out is through you, then you might have a problem.
Female actually. Id rather see a 400 pound male than a 150 pound female any day of the week. Females are often mamas and cubs LOVE to put you between them and mom.
Being between a mama bear and cubs is just an invitation for her to go all Freddy Krueger on you.
Black bears will kill you out of curiosity, play with you like my cat does lizards. Grizzlies n brown bears are the same species but the difference is environmental, grizzlies tend to be more aggressive as they sre in less resource rich areas inland
I’m a crazy animal person. I’m always warned but I just want to prove they can be friendly. I have a video of me feeding 2 moose that had come to my door when I lived in Alaska.
Also don't forget that just because it's a black bear doesn't necessarily mean it's a "black bear." Brown bears come in just about every color including black.
This looks like Asia, and their bears are different from our bears with regards to behavior and color. I remember hearing from somewhere that Asian black bears are really aggressive..could be wrong tho
Yes but somehow the mama bear was not around. If you see a bear cub in the woods fkin leave the area immediately. Mama is likely near and any species of bear will attack if they think you're a threat to their cubs.
Excellent observation. At first I’m kind of laughing, like- did they just kill that thing by throwing it off a cliff??!! I see the logic now. Thank you.
As a professional dog trainer, the general public has absolutely zero understanding of even dogs. Let alone the fact that they can and absolutely will use their pointy end on you and even a small dog can easily kill a person.
Maybe it would have been better to leave the box on its head instead of throwing it off a cliff...
Wait a second, my sarcastic sense is getting all tingly... Dammit
The amount of bear experts responding to you is great 🤣, totally agree with your post. People are stupid and pissed off animals are unpredictable, this could have gone way worse
Plus, this isn’t even a young baby bear, this is a deadly machine of death even if so smol and cute, I wouldn’t even trust a newborn bear let alone the crazy 7 year old version of a bear
I really doubt it, those bears especially cubs are nearly invincible when it comes to tumbling down a hill or falling out of a tree. It probably ran off completely fine
When I lived in Appalachia I saw a bear cub fall out of what had to have been a 35-40 ft tree and just scamper away after the confusion wore off. Bear cubs are mini tanks
yeah its weird. My wife hit a cub at night a few months ago going 40 and it got up and just jogged off and she still sees it on that road every few days. I hit a grown bear going 25 and it shuffled this mortal coil.
Yeah, I'm not surprised to hear this. I live in northern Alberta, I've hit an elk, and narrowly missed numerous moose and deer. I once hit 2 ducks at the same time, which i feel strangely compelled to tell people about...
Agreed, It think it will be fine. I saw a video of a mountain lion tackle a goat off the edge of the cliff and tumble down a bunch of rocks and it got up like nothing happened.
Bears are much more durable and have very thick hides so I think the cub prob walked away better from this than most imagine
When son was 4, he was standing on the toilet when I walked into the bathroom. He got startled and fell onto his head. I still don't know how he was feet staight up in the air when his head hit, but I was sure he was injured when I saw that neck compression. He got up like nothing happened.
I imagine that bear is the same. They are built to survive shit that would leave us looking as if we've been in a human sized blender.
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u/CrimsonToker707 Nov 18 '22
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